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Crossings / Colorado / Fort Collins

Fort Collins
Colorado.

Public crossings55at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates62%11 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 55 public at-grade railroad crossings in Fort Collins, CO, operated by 3 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 27 of the crossings here, 49% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 18.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (55).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company2749%
Union Pacific Railroad Company1833%
Great Western Railway of Colorado, LLC1018%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at North Shield Street And US 287 on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 7 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 55 is 3. These are counts the operating railroad reported to the FRA, not measurements, and a crossing's figure can be several years old.

The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 49 mph.

Warning devices

34 of the 55 crossings carry gates and 10 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (20%) have neither, which means crossbucks, a stop sign, or no marking the inventory records at all. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.

Horns and quiet zones

No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.

Incident history

Form 57 records 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Timberline Rd — 2 reported incidents
  • Richards Lake Rd — 1 reported incident

What this page is not

This is a summary of a federal inventory, not a measurement and not a rating. RailContext does not score crossings, streets or towns, and nothing here says a crossing is safe or unsafe, or that a neighbourhood is quiet or loud. Train counts are estimates the operating railroad filed, sometimes years ago, and a quiet zone does not guarantee silence.

To see the individual crossings nearest one address rather than a whole city, use the address check.

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